transitive. To pull out of the ground. Also figurative.

transitive. To pluck, pull, or snatch. In Old English also: to scratch.

transitive. To draw out with a dragging or tugging action; to pluck out; to extract, remove. Also: to withdraw (support).

transitive. To drag or draw (something) out of the ground or from a settled place in order to remove or destroy it; to uproot. Also intransitive.

transferred. Of human beings. (Contemptuously.)